Geoffrey Walter Chardin died in the Gold Coast Colony on May 29th, 1923, whilst gallantly endeavouring to save the life of a native workman who had been overcome by the fumes of one of the vats in the cyanide plant of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation at Obuasi. He was 27 years of age. This tragedy was the final act of a series of heroic deed, for at the age of 16 he had received the Royal Humane Society’s certificate for saving life, and during his war record with the R.N.A.S. in the Near East he was mentioned in dispatches for meritorious service.
He was apprenticed in 1913 at the works of the Great Eastern Ry., where he won the Directors’ Scholarship. From May, 1915, to January, 1919, he was serving in H.M. Forces as air mechanic, and on demobilisation, he entered for the Diploma Course at the Camborne School of Mines with one year’s exemption due to his previous record. On completion of his course he proceeded to West Africa to join the staff of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation.
Mr. Chardin was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1921.
Vol. 33, Trans I.M.M. 1923-4, p. 530
